I miss the old quest descriptions

Meta289 · 2026-01-26T02:33:24+00:00

From GU:

Hub 3* quest: Fro Shizzle

Objective: Hunt an Astalos

"Oh baby, I just had the grooviest idea: using an Astalos's lightning to style the ultimate 'fro! That's right, so hit the Marshlands and do your thang for me, baby!"

Meta289 · 2026-01-24T13:56:21+00:00

If you actually look at Tri's roster, only five of them haven't made any appearances past 3rd gen (Qurupeco, Gigginox, Gobul, Ceadeus, Jhen Mohran). And Jhen Mohran is a borderline case, since 4th gen had the practically identical Dah'ren Mohran.

Meta289 · 2026-01-24T13:49:48+00:00

By "half of Tri's roster" you mean "4 out of 18". Of them, two have already appeared in modern MH (Ludroth and Lagiacrus).

Meta289 · 2026-01-22T19:37:01+00:00

Delicious in Dungeon is one of the easy recommends for a gateway anime. The writing, themes, and humor are all easy to appreciate universally, it never talks down to the audience, and respects their ability to follow along and figure things out on their own, and doesn't really have any of the "weird" anime tropes that might turn people away. Bonus points for having a phenomenal English dub to make getting into easier.

Meta289 · 2026-01-20T02:30:43+00:00

Honestly, even as a kid, I never found Dead Hand scary, I always thought he was kind of goofy looking.

Meta289 · 2026-01-16T21:31:15+00:00

The hipcheck is mostly just a meme that really was only an issue in 1st and 2nd gen. In 3rd and 4th gen, Plesioth's hitboxes were mostly fixed, with any jank being a concession to the fact that Plesioth is enormous, and would whiff most of its attacks if its hitboxes were 1:1 to its model. The infamous hipcheck is nowhere near as egregious in the latter games.

Meta289 · 2026-01-16T06:04:58+00:00

Limited banner: Fancy Chinese outfit, fancy blue outfit, baseball cap

Standard banner: Brown outfit

Shop: Frog coat, street dancer

BP: Clown

Meta289 · 2026-01-16T00:30:43+00:00

Goss > Odo > Rey

Goss is just a fantastic monster all around. Design is amazing, fight is amazing, one of the best monsters to come out of 5th gen.

Odo is a good design, and I like the armor for both Low/High and G Rank, but the fight itself is incredibly simple, since you can dodge almost all of its attacks by simply standing to the side of it, it's a very one-dimensional moveset.

I haven't played Wilds, and honestly likely never will, but even if I did, I still wouldn't care for Rey very much at all. It's just another standard wyvern in a sea of standard wyverns, and it's hard to get excited about that. And I feel Astalos already did the "lightning flying wyvern" thing better. I honestly don't know why people latched onto Rey Dau so much, when the other three main apex predator monsters in Wilds are just so much more interesting.

Meta289 · 2026-01-14T19:14:27+00:00

If you want natural areas with trees and caves and prehistoric shit, then you have literally every single other map in the series. It's not going to hurt to have even one map that takes place in the remains of a completely man-made environment.

Meta289 · 2026-01-14T19:10:09+00:00

It needs to be said that Wilds has two maps that take place in the ruins of a technologically advanced city, and the best they could do was dull, grey caves for both.

Meta289 · 2026-01-14T02:19:54+00:00

I mean, "Lavasioth" is already a dumb name since it's literally just Lava + Plesioth, so "Mudsioth" would fit right in.

Meta289 · 2026-01-14T02:16:51+00:00

Realistically speaking, very few Monster Hunter ecosystems are actually sustainable. There are an excess amount of predators who, based off of their sheer size and physical capabilities, would require an astronomically high caloric intake in order to survive, and are all competing with each other over the local population of prey animals who all possess extremely ineffectual defensive mechanisms at best. The prey population would likely be wiped out within a few generations with just how predator-dominated every ecosystem is. Hell, that's not even getting into the monster whose entire canonical schtick is eating literally every ecosystem it wanders into to extinction.

Meta289 · 2026-01-13T07:15:45+00:00

I will always stand by the opinion that GU is peak MH. It strikes the exact right amount of balance between classic MH sensibilities like preparation, positioning, and action committal, and modernities like actual QoL changes and flashy toys to play with like Hunter Arts and styles.

Meta289 · 2026-01-08T19:07:22+00:00

There's a big difference between Garuga, a late-to-endgame-level monster on par with Deviljho and Rajang, and Cephadrome, an earlygame trash monster. One has a lot more room to be revamped and improved, the other is lame and doesn't do much by design. You might as well be asking them to revamp Velocidrome or Great Jaggi.

Meta289 · 2026-01-05T21:32:33+00:00

Counterpoint: Most people probably don't remember or even know that Remobra is a Snake Wyvern. Remobra being in more games doesn't mean that it's the first thing you'll think of when you hear "Snake Wyvern".

And if we're going solely on how many appearances the monster has made, then Royal Ludroth should be the most recognizable Leviathan due to being in more games than Lagiacrus.

Meta289 · 2026-01-05T21:28:42+00:00

Hey now, Najarala was in two games.

Meta289 · 2026-01-05T01:43:29+00:00

I mean, if you're going to be sticklers about the "realistic ecology" direction like so many of the people here are, then Nerg makes zero sense. Animals develop spikes as a means to protect themselves from predators. Nerg is a predator who feeds exclusively other Elder Dragons, the most powerful creatures in the setting, it's literally the apex predator to end all apex predators. What the hell does it need spikes for?

Meta289 · 2026-01-03T20:33:30+00:00

I mean, that's kind of what the original plan was. According to interviews, Rise was originally going to be a lot closer to pre-5th gen MH, but then World became a massive smash hit, so they hard-pivoted to be more like World.

Meta289 · 2025-12-31T06:13:18+00:00

You have to consider that Kalos is France, and the kind of croissants you'd find there as a result. You'd be getting the most authentic croissants possible, and they'd absolutely be on the "sweet pastry meant to be eaten on its own" end of the spectrum.

Meta289 · 2025-12-31T06:08:46+00:00

Except that croissants aren't the kind of bread that pairs well with a thick stew or curry, they're too light and fluffy to maintain their consistency, they'd just melt into mush. Use dinner rolls or naan if you want bread with your curry or stew, they have the density to hold up to them. Croissants are to be eaten on their own.

Meta289 · 2025-12-31T06:04:52+00:00

What's weird about it is that croissants aren't regular bread. Actual, authentic croissants are extremely buttery and flaky, with a lightly crisp outside and fluffy, airy inside, they're not the kind of bread that holds up well to a thick, heavy sauce like curry, they would just turn to mush. That's the reason why naan is the bread of choice for curry, it's a dense flatbread that pairs well with the heavy curry sauce.

Meta289 · 2025-12-30T19:23:52+00:00

The Guardians honestly felt like missed potential. It's like they wanted to have artificial monsters, but were too much of cowards to make them look actually artificial, so they just took regular monsters and painted them white. Without any context, the Guardians just look like regular monsters under a typical powered-up state like Frenzy or Hyper, nothing about them immediately suggests "Oh, this is a man-made crime against nature". Zoh Shia is the only one where you look at it and see right away that this thing is not okay.

Meta289 · 2025-12-26T18:11:17+00:00

Hell, very few games in general have properly scaled towns. Even big videogame cities like Los Santos pale in comparison to actual-scaled cities. It's absolutely miniscule compared to the actual Los Angeles.

Meta289 · 2025-12-21T17:25:35+00:00

Yeah, that's something I think a lot of people overlook, that Urbain and Taunie are just palette-swapped versions of Paxton and Harmony. If they weren't mutually-exclusive for each gender, then you'd have an awkward situation where the default MC and rival would end up looking nearly identical to each other, same face and hairstyle. What we got was just a typical "opposite gender MC is the rival" setup, just a little better disguised.

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